Afghan blast kills 33; president blames Islamic State
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad killed 33 people and injured more than 100 on Saturday, setting off a blast outside a bank where government workers collect salaries, the city’s police chief…
South Africa’s Zuma visits immigrants displaced by anti-foreigner violence
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma on Saturday canceled a state visit to Indonesia to deal with a wave of anti-immigrant violence at home and promised peace to those who wished to remain in Africa’s most advanced economy.
Putin says ready to work with United States: TV
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview.
Greece wants EU/IMF deal but impasse could bring referendum: deputy PM
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece aims for a deal with its creditors over a reforms package but will not retreat from its red lines, the country’s deputy prime minister told the Sunday newspaper To Vima, not ruling out a referendum or early polls if talks reac…
Yemen government rejects Iranian peace plan
ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s government has rejected a four-point peace plan for the country that Iran submitted to the United Nations, a spokesman said on Saturday.
Russian cyber attackers used two unknown flaws: security company
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A widely reported Russian cyber-spying campaign against diplomatic targets in the United States and elsewhere has been using two previously unknown flaws in software to penetrate target machines, a security company investigati…
Islamist group claims attack on U.N. peacekeepers in Mali
BAMAKO (Reuters) – A group headed by former al Qaeda fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility for a suicide raid on U.N. peacekeepers in northern Mali in which at least three people were killed.
Thousands in Germany protest against Europe-U.S. trade deal
BERLIN (Reuters) – Thousands of people marched in Berlin, Munich and other German cities on Saturday in protest against a planned free trade deal between Europe and the United States that they fear will erode food, labor and environmental standards.
Russia denies German report it is ready to sign gas deal with Greece
MOSCOW/BERLIN (Reuters) – Russia denied on Saturday a German media report suggesting that it could sign a gas pipeline deal with Greece as early as Tuesday which could bring up to five billion euros into Athens’ depleted state coffers.
Heavy clashes in central district, suburb of Tripoli
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Heavy clashes broke out in the Libyan capital on Saturday, residents said, with gunfire and explosions heard in areas home to groups that oppose the Tripoli-based government.
